Sarah's Blue Dress is a 5-piece band from Tilburg, The Netherlands, formed by Joyce Dijkgraaf. Sarah is a sensitive lonely lady who showed herself for the first time in 2010, dressed up in a blue dress she celebrated her existence.

Cris Tanzi

Over the rainbow

In 2008 Cris Tanzi decided to quit her day job and to become a full-time musician. Then Cris was performing her own songs. Nowadays she has a BA Jazz degree from Middlesex University, is a private teacher and is busy with some music projects.

Kalika

Love is ...

Kalika is a singer-songwriter from Liverpool in the UK. She released her 9-track debut album "And a Little Bit of Chutney" in spring 2014. She describes her genre as "jazzy-good conscience-rhythmical folk".

June Caravel

Ceasefire

June Caravel is a vocal explorer from France, but in the past few years she has travelled a lot. She moved to the UK, then to Australia and Germany. Since October 2014 she has been living and performing back in France. She has released 2 albums.

RazzMaTazz Music

Signs

RazzMaTazz Music is the project of Pat Sunny Spring from Germany. He and his big band want to bring back jazz/swing and to show how real and alive it is.

Rosa Sky

The pearl

The Dutch band Rosa Sky was formed in 2007. They describe their music as passionate and authentic, somewhere between folk, blues, country and pop. They have released 3 albums, "Sweet Surrender", "All Around Us" and "White Electric Wizard".

Laïxa

Bad news

Laïxa is the duo of singer Paméla and instrumentalist Chris from France. Both have made some very nice jingles for us.

Ill!noiz

техника молодежи (Technic of youth)

Russian band Ill!noiz (иллинойз) are a psychedelic sextet known for their eclectic music and absurd lyrics. As they say, they please and tease, show up and vanish and they are weirdos that are outside of any trends. The band has released 2 albums.

Syndrom Kreta

Luzak

Syndrom Kreta is a Polish 4-person old-school garage rock'n'roll band, formed in 2006. The name means the mole syndrome. Mole is an underground creature, a suitable name for an underground band.

Song of the Week

Benny Mayhem

Mindless Greg The Media Consumer

Benny Mayhem is from Australia. Until a year ago he played in a punk band. After the band broke up, he decided to travel and tour as a folk-punk troubadour instead of forming a new band. "Mindless Greg The Media Consumer" is his first song online.

J. Whitman

Sign of the times

J. Whitman is from Los Angeles, California. He released his first single, "Metro" in 2007 which was nominated in 2009 for an "Independent Music Award" in the category "Best Dance Song". In 2012 he released his debut album, titled "Full Spectrum".

Sasho Janevski Richy Project

Movement

Sasho Janevski Richy Project is from Trondheim, Norway. The genre of this project is a mix of industrial, electronica and gothic.

The Symptoms

Abyss (in the woods)

The Symptoms started to perform and record songs in their converted cow shed in 2001 and are still going strong. This is the project of Mr. and Mrs. Symptom from Lunedale in the UK.

Vinny Davis

Bed bugs

Vinny Davis from New York has released 12 albums under his own record label VDM/Unusual Spreads.

Samuli.T.Mäkelä

Reflections

Samuli.T.Mäkelä is from Finland. He is a versatile musician who does not want limits in his music. His first instrument was the guitar, which has an important place in his compositions. Later he went on to master a few more instruments.

This weekend will be an extra musical weekend for TalentCast, because next to this radio show, we will host our 7th album listening session. On Sunday we will host "Fake blood from real wounds", the newest album of The Imaginary Suitcase, the solo project of Laurent Leemans from Belgium. You are very welcome to join the session, and to bring your friends. Check our website talentcast.nl for the details.

Today you will hear some new songs from artists we have played before, some older songs and of course the Song of the Week winner.

Last week on Friday we heard very sad news about one of our artists - Joyce Dijkgraaf from Tilburg in the Netherlands. On Thursday evening, on September the 24th Joyce crashed with her car. On Friday she passed away because of her injuries.

Joyce, you left us sweet memories of the few times we met and you left us beautiful music. Rest in peace, dear Joyce.

Benny Mayhem is a singer-songwriter from Perth, Australia. Until a year ago Benny played in a punk band named Project Mayhem. After the band broke up, he decided not to start a new band right away and to travel and tour as a folk-punk troubadour. Since then he has been travelling the world with his acoustic guitar.

Benny Mayhem is just finishing his European tour. He has visited The Netherlands and played in Groningen, and that is where Catself and I met him two weeks ago.

Mindless Greg The Media Consumer portrays the world view of, as Benny explains, "the boorish, unthinking element of our democracies whose opinions – while not necessarily intended as malicious – tended to be anyway."

Mindless Greg The Media Consumer is Benny Mayhem's first single release. Later this year he will release his debut 6-track EP which you can buy now already at his shows.

Benny Mayhem is already planning his next tour. He might visit your country too!